topic 5- policies towards the jews and the untermenschen during war and final solution

Question 1

when was the wansee conference

Answer 1

20th january 1942

Question 2

who led the wansee conference?

Answer 2

heydrich

Question 3

what was decided at the wansee conference?

Answer 3

• the final soloution to the jewish question which was externimation at death camps acroess europe and germany
• was called jewish question to keep the plan hidden from the world
• hitler didnt attend and there is no evidence of hitler signign off on any of the final solution attrocities

Question 4

how many holocaust victims died as auchswit?

Answer 4

1/5

Question 5

what was auswitz 3 used for

Answer 5

as a industrial complex where jewish workers were used to mare ammunition for the war

Question 6

what doctor worked at auchwizt

Answer 6

joseph mengel or the ‘angel of death’ perfromed horrific acts on twins to work out how to expand the master race and see if they both felt pain ect.

Question 7

what camp killed the most amount of people?

Answer 7

treblinka killed 1 million people and was only open for open year 1942-42

Question 8

what was the first camp to be opened

Answer 8

chelmo

killed 145,000

Question 9

what was the split of prisoners in mejadank

Answer 9

60% jewish

Question 10

what were partisan groups

Answer 10

groups of jewish resitance in mainly easterneurop who would camp out in forests and sabotage nazi procedures

Question 11

in 1942 how many jewish partisans were there in lithuania

Answer 11

100,000

Question 12

evidence of partisan groups posing. a threat to nazis

Answer 12

hans frank (governer of the general goverenmnt area in poland) called for large security backup to find 20 different partisan groups

Question 13

sobibor revolt

Answer 13

1943 800 prisoners escaped afer revolt

Question 14

warwaw ghetto uprising

Answer 14

may 1943 armed revolt to stop the deportisation of jews to the death camps

Question 15

what were death marches

Answer 15

by 1944 when the germans were suffering a military defeat and many camps were being closed down or liberated the ss camp leaders led the jews to walk all the way to difference camos

Question 16

how many victims were there of death marches

Answer 16

around 250,000 to 400,000 died most women of maltuntion freezing to deaht or exaustion

Question 17

what historians believe that hitler is to blame for holocaust and why

Answer 17

intentolaist histroians such as felmming argue tha hitler clearly was to blame for holocause was he was committed to jewish persecuton from the stat and this wa sbakce dup my gradually worsening jewish policy

many top nazis aid he verbally gave murderous orders and was highly probable he authroised final solution

Question 18

counter to hitler being to blame

Answer 18

• no signed document authorising the killing of jews or final soluton
• hitler wasnt at the wasnsee conference
• hitler myht made peoe to beleive that hitler was far more involed in policu making than he was

Question 19

what historians beleive that the german people were to blame

Answer 19

revistionist of structuralist histroians such as goldberg argue that the german people were ‘willing executioners’ and even revelled in mass murder

germans morally responsible for the final oloution due to their anti semitic views tha were stregnthend by porganda athat made them complicit

Question 20

how many germans were accused of being involved in final solution?

Answer 20

• 100,000

Question 21

argument against german public being to balme

Answer 21

only a small number and most were non germasn and ukranian

many people didnt know of the attrocits they were just rumor hat people beleived were wholly made up

Question 22

arguments that it was other nazi leaders to blame for final sol

Answer 22

• heydrich lead wansee conference
• adolf eichmann was architech of fianl solotion organisation trandport to camps
• himmler commanded ss to work at camps and einsatz grupped to carry out mass muder in euastern europe
• speer made the gas chambers

Question 23

how many rebels were there in the warsaw ghetto uprisings?

Answer 23

700

Question 24

what. was operation rhinehard

Answer 24

killed most of the surviing inhabitiants of the warsaw ghetto in a 2 day shooting

Question 25

bielksi bothers

Answer 25

in belarus in 1941 a jewish partisan gourps lead by the beliski borthers becmae a persement communist partisan groups with 120,000 members

allowed jews who escaped the ghettos to seek refuge with them